Freshchat Software

Freshchat is a cloud-based live messaging solution that helps sales and customer service teams engage with prospective buyers. The key features of the solution include automated messages, in-app campaigns, automated lead generation using chatbots and integrated customer self-service.

Freshchat offers a priority inbox that helps sales teams to manage and respond to customer inquiries. Additionally, FreshChat includes features like custom dashboard views for individual team members, widgets, team segmentation, client information and more.

The CRM autoload feature allows chatbots to automatically update leads into a database for sales teams. Users can also set up multilingual FAQs to help address customer queries. Assignment rules enable businesses to assign conversations to specific team members or groups based on pre-set conditions.

Freshchat is available per user per month. Support is offered via email, chat and over the phone.

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Price is on the lower end of the customer chat solutions out there. And it has the core features you need if you need more than the cheapest options.

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Where to start. Quality is an issue. If you don't have a lot of traffic, maybe this is enough. But the second you get into their more advanced controls, we just experienced so many anomalies... It was hard to know what was us and what was them. And anytime we reached out for help, the majority of their team is based overseas and turn around seemed slow. Then when it came to troubleshooting, they always wanted links and screenshots. Meanwhile, since they took so long to respond, you are long past being in the error state and moved way past the issue - knowing the issue still likely exists. This lead to nothing getting fixed or resolved. Pay the premium and get Intercom or Drift. Or get one of the cheap options out there.

I am just a customer using this software

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I've used this chat service on multiple occasions on a specific website when order bulk items. The chat experience has always been the same, which is nice. It is simple to see where to click to open the chat, there is an option to minimize the chat window. It's easy to know when you are getting a response. I've had a good overall experience.

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It is a simple chat software that makes communicating with a sales representative simple and easy. I like that the interface isn't distracting. There isn't a lot of unnecessary fluff surrounding the chat window. There is a simple sound that plays when someone responds to the chat. That makes it easy to know when the sales representative has responded to my question, even if I change tabs in my browser.

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I honestly can't think of any from the customer side of things. I don't know on the other side.

Review Source: Capterra

October 2018

October 2018

The Best Chat App Imimented Easily

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Brilliant so far, we’re taking it one step at a time but plan to rolls this out across all of our sites.

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It’s UI is incredible, super easy to use but with all of the features you would expect and more!

Cons

I’d like the bot to be more programmable so that it can respond to common questions from customers automatically.

Review Source: Capterra

September 2018

September 2018

One of the best modern communication tools

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One thing we really like about FreshChat is it's intuitive nature. New users literally become proficient within minutes and experienced users are finding new functionally all the time!

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Compared with other modern chat applications and software, we feel a little slighted with the fees. Skype, Slack, etc, are solutions which cost no money.

Simple Easy To Use and Added a Huge Value to Our Customer Support/Training

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Really enjoyed learning about the software as soon as I signed up for the free trial.
I also enjoyed my interactions when their training and support staff who helped me quickly get this up and running. The day it went live for our customers we received great feedback about how accessible our company is.

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Without help it could be a little hard to set up however their support staff was very helpful from the start so I should say their are no cons!

Easy to set up and easy to manage

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All required options are available. Reports and dashboard features are good.

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Sometimes the notifications do not pop up on time which makes the agents difficult to act faster.

Review Source: Capterra

July 2018

July 2018

Modern Design, Useful information

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Its design is very attractive which customer finds it easy to use. It give us leverage when communicating with the customers.
Added information regarding the customers are also very helpful on giving us an idea how to handle/communicate.
Easy to setup. With offline mode.

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Message notification from customers can be improved. Customer service sometimes missed messages due to this.

Review Source: Capterra

July 2018

July 2018

Freshchat - Straightforward and Easy to Use

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This has improved customer communication and resolving issues in a timely manner. Very proactive approach.

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The software is very user friendly. It allows our clients to provide feedback while using our website which is very beneficial to improve in areas we need to address. The feature of having multiple chats open is a plus. This software will allows you to get back to your customer even if the customer already left your website by gathering their name, email and phone number. Very proactive approach to chat.

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Notifications to the agents are not very loud, so they don't always hear it if on another chat tab. An improvement that is being worked on.

Review Source: Capterra

July 2018

July 2018

A great chat widget

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I got this for free so I honestly can't complain about the price. The UI is intuitive and easy to get to grips with.

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There are literally so many other competitors in this market that it's hard to differentiate yourself. I like freshchat but there are lots of alternatives that would have been just as good.

Great tool for instant chat

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The Sales team is greatly using the tool and is really liking it!

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Its simple and easy! Freshchat by FreshDesk is helping us attend to the queries of our customers and website visitors almost instantly! The bot is also a part of our Sales team keeping them engaged until we take up :D

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The support is not very quick. There's no 24x7 support for trial. Automation is limited to a couple of available options and are not extendable. There are no extendable criteria.

Review Source: Capterra

Kobi from Kobestarr Digital

May 2018

May 2018

The main thing that attracted me to Freshchat was that it looked good...1 was vain

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It looks good and if it had worked it would have done some nice things like linking with Freshdesk and Facebook

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Customer Service. Getting someone on a chat takes at least 30mins in the first place. Then you can tell they are on a few different calls at the same time. Each response takes a long time.
Documentation is poor - they have a page that tells you to copy some code. There is no link to the code!
Basic Features do not exist (not able to choose which pages the widget appears, when the widget appears)
Making changes mainly requires you to add additional code to the site instead of in the settings.

Review Source: Capterra

April 2018

April 2018

Absolutely awesome tool for customer interactions via live chat!!

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The UI is refreshing and usage is quite easy. It is easy to get started and the simplicity of the UI allows to learn the functionality easily. Sincerely saying, I haven't tried many other chat tools but I can vouch that this is one of the good ones.

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Didn't find much of any cons to start with. To start with, one can say that the customization in the custom campaigns is not very flexible and could include more options.

Review Source: Capterra

April 2018

April 2018

Great SDK to interact with our customers easily

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- Greatly helps in talking to our customer via the application
- They provides iOS, Android and Web SDK to integrate in all platforms
- Channels are great, so we can send like a notification to users
- Tagging each users with custom fields is great

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- While doing the integration with iOS, the documentation for exporting the push notification certificate is mentioned wrong on the official documentation. It took a while for us to figure out. Integration documentations can be improved.

We use it on our website.

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We can engage more website visitors.

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It's well-balanced and not expensive, unlike alternatives. We trialed with other solutions but after we used free version for a while, decided to go with them. We also use Freshsales and both solutions integrate well.

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No disadvantages, we are happy. Support is quick and I think they would be more quicker if we were in the same timezone.

Review Source: Capterra

Jacob from JP Industries

March 2018

March 2018

Terrible Product

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Lost a few customers

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Allows unlimited contacts to be stored on the system & a priority inbox for customers with urgent inquiries

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That a chat must be assigned to an agent and the conversation is viewable next time the user contacts you. Also having a team widget is not helpful because sometimes customers want to chat with a specific agent.

Review Source: Capterra

Muneeba from TRG

March 2018

March 2018

Bring customer servie level to the next level

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I like that you can integrate this program with a lot of other ones, like Facebook Messenger. I like that I can message my team and customers in an intuitive way. I like that I can collect data from the people I want and "put them separately", like a favorite tag. I like the design, it's really modern. I like that you don't have a limit when it comes to having contacts, and there's this section that is called "reports", where you can monitor your team's productivity and you can see what you can do to improve your business.

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It was a bit difficult to set up, but the customer service is really nice and it helped me with everything I needed to know!